Chapter 10: Pool of Damnation

Soon, Reed arrived in front of the large door once again. He stood there for a moment and took a deep breath. Then he opened the door and got in.

Inside the large door was another corridor. But unlike other corridors that just had walls, this was structured similar to an apartment floor and had many doors on either side which seemed like rooms.

Reed slowly walked to the very end of the corridor and stood in front of a door. Just as he was about to knock on the door when he heard an ice-cold voice call out.

"No need to come in. You can say whatever you have to say standing there. If you don't want to do that, you can leave as well. No one will stop you."

Reed's hands that were about to knock on the door froze as his face twitched with a feeling of displeasure and anger.

"Ah, Jane, are you awake? I wanted to talk to you for a bit" Reed asked in a gentle voice notwithstanding the anger.

"Stop it, you hypocrite. No need to talk to me in such a fawning manner. Don't forget that you are not allowed to call me by my name. If you do that one more time, I will immediately freeze my heart, and then you do know very well what would happen." threatened the girl named Jane.

Reed's face grew angrier as he started gnashing his teeth. But he slowly controlled his anger and still spoke out gently.

"From now on, a mortal boy will be staying in one of the rooms here. I hope you can stay away from him and avoid any form of contact with him. Do not speak even a single word with that boy as he is very important to my plans. If the boy becomes suspicious or ruins the plans due to you, I swear I will lock your dead mother's soul in the pool of damnation for all eternity."

"Vile creature, if you do anything to my mother's soul, I will, I will…" the ice-cold voice immediately quivered, but it seemed as if she had no other ways to threaten Reed. Then she spoke out in her ice-cold voice once again.

"Are you talking about the brat whom you brought from that low-level plane? Do I look like someone who would be remotely concerned about a mortal without a shred of cultivation? You can rest assured that I will have nothing to do with that mortal."

"Good, then I am leaving. Take care" Reed huffed as he walked away without waiting for the ice-cold voice to speak again, anger clearly visible on his face.

'Damn this brat. If not for the fact that this brat's life force is being closely monitored by the powerhouses in the empire, I would have personally killed her a long ago. Hah, just you wait till I take over the empire. At that time, I swear that I will play you to death. Let's see who will save you at that time.' he cursed inwardly.

'It looks like the boy has still not come out. Haha, Good. The longer he spends in the Pool of Damnation, the more corruption he will suffer from and the easier it will be to take over his soul. It seems like my plans will be able to come to fruition very soon. I must make preparations to get the sacrifices ready as soon as possible.' he thought as he left the corridor.

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Meanwhile, Jason was deeply enjoying his bath. Currently, he was deeply engrossed in his thoughts.

'Ah, how nice does this bath feel. Back on Earth, I have never had such a luxurious bath. Oh god, thank you so much for such a royal treatment. Ah, why am I thanking God? Where was he when I was suffering so much on Earth? Hah, I should be thanking my master for taking me under him and giving me a chance at cultivation rather than some stupid non-existent god.'

As he spent more and more time in the pool, his thoughts kept on becoming more and more negative.

'Damn that wretched whore,' cursed Jason thinking about the girl who had framed him for sexual assault in college. 'I had done absolutely nothing to her. Rather it was she who had pranked upon me. But not only did she not apologize to this daddy, but she also made me pay her five hundred dollars!!! I was fucking broke for months after that fiasco. Bitch, just you wait. If I do not torture your soul for five hundred days, no five hundred years, my name is not Jason Taylor. Hehe. At that time let us see who will come to your aid.'

Jason's thoughts kept on wandering around from that girl to the shitty landlord and his dog Axle, and then to his boss and his colleagues at the data entry office.

'Dogs, all of them are fucking dogs and bitches who have absolutely no right to live. Even on death, their souls must be tortured for an entire eternity. Not just their souls, even the souls of seven generations of their ancestors as well as descendants should not be spared. How dare they belong to the same family as these dogs? Humph, as soon as this daddy becomes strong, he will immediately return to earth and then… Hehehe,'

Unknown to Jason, as he kept on relishing these negative thoughts and kept replaying the scenes of torturing those people again and again in his mind, the white soul shield started losing its color and becoming fainter and fainter, as if losing the very source of its energy. But as the Skull Tattoo was not invading into Jason's soul at this moment, he did not feel any pain or notice anything wrong.

Soon, a point of time came when the shield lost all its luster and was about to disappear into nothingness. This was precisely the moment that the Tattoo had been waiting for. Just when it was about to launch its attack, suddenly Jason had a new thought.

'Ah, in order to return back to Earth, I need to quickly start my cultivation. Only then can I have my revenge. I must go to my Master and ask him to teach me as soon as possible'

As soon as Jason had this thought, he started to get out of the pool to go and learn from his Master. Immediately, all the scenes of torturing those people vanished from his mind and the soul shield was able to strengthen itself a little, thus thwarting the plans of the Skull Tattoo.

Unknown to Jason, this action of his had actually saved his soul as the soul shield was able to survive… that is for the time being.